(During the Past Week the Daily Press Gave Extensive Publicity to the Following Men and Women. Let Each Explain to You Why His Name Appeared in the Headlines.)

Julius Rosenwald, President of Sears, Roebuck & Co.: "I narrowly escaped death. At a grade crossing near Chicago my automobile, was struck by a Baltimore & Ohio train. I leaped from my place at the wheel, was unhurt. My automobile, wrecked, was carried more than 100 yards down the track."

The Premier of Quebec (L. A. Taschereau) : "In Montreal, I engaged a hotel room. While I slept, some one entered, took $1,200 from my trousers, escaped."

Ramsay Macdonald, Prime Minister of England: "One William H. Crawford, writing in Collier's Weekly stated that he had passed a cigarette case to my daughter Ishbel and her brother Malcom, and that I had looked at him sternly and said: 'My children are not modern enough to smoke.' He went on to say: 'Neither he nor his children play cards. There was no liquor in the Macdonald household. His children do not go to dances or theatre parties, but they have plenty of sport.' "

G. K. Chesterton: "Peggy O'Neil, American actress, wrote a letter to a London newspaper asserting that the Englishman's breakfast of bacon and eggs reduces the originality of his outlook. She pleaded for more fruit. Said I: 'If there is anything to justify armed assault on the United States it is their attempt to introduce iced water and fresh fruit in bulk to the English breakfast table.' "

Horace Liveright, publisher: "Rabbi Samuel Schulman of the Temple Beth-El, Manhattan, devoted an entire sermon to 'A Nasty Book.' Rabbi Schulman refuses to name this 'stinking, tingling book' which is 'making enough money for its author and publisher as it is.' But it was recognized instantly by the congregation, which crowded around the rabbi after the sermon and joined in attacking it as Haunch, Paunch and Jowl* [reviewed in TIME, Jan. 14]. Mention in the book of East Side gangs, politicians and houses of prostitution caused Rabbi Schulman to say that 'the book drips in lecherousness and is steeped in sensuality.' To a newspaper reporter I pointed out that the author of the book has been dead five years, that the entire East Side mourned at his funeral. Said I: 'I feel that this book, which you consider a degraded piece of work, is worthy of comparison with the finest confessions of the soul of all time. I feel it is about time for Jews to stop carrying chips on their shoulders. Through the ages they have preserved their inferiority complex.' As proof that I hold no animus against the Jew, I pointed out that I had just published a translation of Silbermann by Jacques de Lacretelle, a novel passionately defending the Jew."

*Boni and Liveright ($3.00).